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Mounting is the concept of attaching a file system to a computer for access.

A mount is the process of attaching a file system to a computer so that it can be accessed. Depending on the operating system, a mount could be local or remote, via a network, read-only or read-write, or many other options.

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How to mount Solaris Hard Drive?

I have received a HDD. It has single partition with id 42 SFS covering the whole partition. But I am reliably told that it came from Sun Fire XXXX (where XXXX is 15 hundred or thousand or something like that). Please help me to mount it. I'm sure…
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USB stick unmounts itself, becomes unavailable ?!

On Centos 6, I am trying to copy some files from a Fat32 stick. I do a "fdisk -l" then take that name and mount it with this command: mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb I see the files there (I didnt count them tough), then I try to copy them from stick to…
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Network storage is not mounted to the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10

command mount XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:/store/ /mnt/test Error mount server reported tcp not available, falling back to udp mount: RPC: Remote system error - Network is unreachable The server has successfully received the IP address. Any ideas?
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How to make mount_smbfs timeout faster?

I'm mounting several drives in a script. Each one is sometimes unavailable, because the PC it's on is turned off, for instance. However, mount_smbfs takes a long time to fail (around 75 seconds), even with the "-o soft" option. Is there a way to…
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Multiple users writing to one Samba mount point in OSX

I have an OSX box containing a script which writes a unique file to a Samba share. The first part of the script mounts the share. On the machine are 2 users- UserA and UserB. Each requires to run this script at any given time however only the user…
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ext2 file system and Solaris 10

I have Solaris 10 installed on computer and I have USB flash drive with ext2fs partition. I want to mount flash drive and do this: 1) Download FSWpart and FSWfsmisc packages 2) Install: root~#gzcat FSWpart.tar.gz | tar xvf - root~#gzcat…
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Why fsck without umount results in filesystem corruption?

Everyone says that you shouldn't do fsck to a disk without umount, because it will result in filesystem corruption.Actually I tried to fsck a mounted disk and the filesystem is corrupted. That's few years ago when I didn't know much about Linux.…
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Is it possible to mount a disk device with different file system type?

I wonder why mount command takes file system type option like "mount -t type ...". It can find out device's file system type and choose related parameter. Is it possible to mount disks with a file system type other than its current fstype? For…
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Point apache to NAS folder?

I have a NAS on which I have a RAID 10 array that I use as my GIT repository, I like my clients to have access to the site's builds right down to the latest commit. My plan is like so: ____________ ___ __________ | | Git |…
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iptable issues?

Currently I'm trying to setup a PXE server to boot Ubuntu 10.04 on clients. (See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7246064/issues-with-pxe-setup-on-ubuntu-10-04-dhcp-nfs-server for more details) I'm trying to mount basically the entire client's…
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rebuilding raid5 array

I inherited a machine that was running Debian with a RAID 5 array. I installed a bunch of updates (1700 or so) that the OS recommended, then after rebooting, the raid array did not mount. The device /dev/md0 now does not exist, and I do not know…
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Hard drive mounting Question Debian Linux

Hey I just bought a new server and it's running debian it has 2 2tb hard drives in it, and I'm looking to mount the second one to a specific folder. an fdisk -l gives me this Disk /dev/sda: 2000.3 GB, 2000398934016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track,…
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Linux Filesystem Cache using mounts

I have two servers s1 and s2 and two apps a1 and a2. a1 and a2 are installed on s1 and share some files that are accessible via a mount on s2. If a1 writes a file onto the s2 server and a2 the fetches this file from the remote s2 server, how does…
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Creating more space for MySQL with new mount

I'm using a cloud CentOS 5 instance and I realized that I left the default partitioning in the beginning. Everything on / is mounted already on hda that is about 10GB. The other drive (sda) is about 90GB used for backups but I can free that up if…
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Mounting an existing partition of an unmounted disk

I ran the fdisk -l command to show me all the disks and partitions. Here's the output: Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size…
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